To enable the open content revolution, OLPC must not only build and distribute the XO, it must nurture and encourage three groups of people to develop content. This list is incomplete; please add. The categories are interrelated and may blend into each other; most groups will consist of people from multiple categories, and people will fall into multiple categories. This grouping is only a rough attempt at ordering.

These communities may be international or national and have sub-groups by nation or linguistic region. There are some rough ideas on how to stimulate the development of these communities. There should be special emphasis stimulating communities in developing nations.

Matchmaking

Communities in the US, Europe, South America, and elsewhere need to be matched : educators, visionaries, students, class teachers, and children. The critical mass of local communities seems to be low for similar self-sustaining projects; perhaps 10 or 12, which we already have. Harvard's presidential fellows project is looking into mediating such matchmaking.

Licenses

General ideas

project homepages, meetups and ideas

some of this is more global community building, and creating spaces to share thoughts about olpc on the major social sites

on reddit, delicious, stumbleupon

on wikieducator, wikihow, wikipedia, wikimedia commons

meetups

look into an international meetup accounts for local OLPC meetup groups

swag ideas

Joshua McGinnis is working on setting up a Cafepress store. We should put up a design for an OLPC t-shirts there, and some laptop or bumper stickers.

An excellent t-shirt would be one with a large XO icon on the front. If cafepress allows it, people buying it could choose the colours of their XO icon, or perhaps choose between a set: white XO on black t-shirt, black on white, plus some random color variations of the XO. HoboPrimate 00:13, 25 June 2007 (EDT)

If you are starting a local community, and have at least five people signed up in your area, we should make a box of swag available for distribution in person.